An IR seeker is one of the critical sensors for many aerospace systems such as missiles and interceptors. Since the IR seeker generally is located at the tip, owing to the aerodynamic heating, its protective window temperature might substantially rise and introduce a considerable level of noise into the IR sensor. This paper is presenting the key package issue of the IR sensor and introducing a novel thermal management technique to minimize the influence of the protective window on IR seeker performance. A description of the underlying operation theory of these approaches and the simulation via the FEA is provided to evaluate the structure design, the materials selection and the cooling method.


The theoretical basis of geothermal reservoir engineering owes much of its origins to the oil and gas industries, but important differences in resource character and geological setting have resulted in substantial divergences from reservoir simulation as practiced in the petroleum industry. Geothermal reservoirs are hotter, contain different fluids, and are usually found within fractured volcanic formations with little or no intergranular permeability. Fluid flow takes place through an intricate fracture network which penetrates the otherwise impermeable rock. By their very nature, oil and gas fields prior to production are usually static (little or no natural fluid circulation) whereas, by contrast, the presence of a dynamic active natural convective circulation system is an essential prerequisite to the formation of a geo-thermal reservoir-otherwise, the earth's heat cannot penetrate upward to drillable depths. Geothermal reservoirs usually lack the regular sub-horizontal stratification pattern typical of oilfields. The resource sought (heat) is mainly contained within the mass of the rock, so that the geothermal brines serve as working fluids to redistribute this heat within the reservoir and carry it upward. During exploitation, flow rates are necessarily high (the economic value per unit mass of hot brine is vastly less than that of oil), and themore » objective is to create an artificial circulation system using production and injection wells to mine energy from the reservoir by cooling the rock. These phenomenological differences have resulted in development of new techniques of reservoir modeling and simulation for geothermal applications.« less


Foetus-in-foetu is a rare condition in which a vertebrate foetus is enclosed within the abdomen of a normally developing foetus. This report is of a foetus-in-foetu in a newborn boy, in which no vertebral column was identified radiologically or pathologically. The ultrasound and computed tomography features will be discussed. The diagnosis was confirmed by pathology based on the presence of highly developed organogenesis. This patient demonstrates that the presence of a vertebral column is not essential for making the diagnosis.


Driven by a need to reduce repair costs and downtime in structures following a major earthquake, self-centering systems have been introduced. Post-tensioned high strength steel strands have shown promising results in providing self-centering capability in steel frames, where the beams are compressed to columns. This study aims at investigating the feasibility of using reduced length of steel and shape memory alloy strands in steel beam–column connections. Through finite element modeling, the study first evaluates the effect of using short-length regular post-tensioned strands in steel connections. The results show higher strength, stiffness, and energy dissipation capacity for connections with shorter length regular post-tensioned strands. The moment capacity and energy absorption capacity of a post-tensioned beam–column connection with one-third strand length were 105% and 114% higher than those of with full-length strands, respectively. However, residual drifts increased from 4 to 39 mm. To avoid loss in the re-centering capability of such connections due to yielding/failing of post-tensioned steel strands, the application of shape memory alloy and hybrid strands are proposed. The results show that shorter length shape memory alloy strands are effective in regaining self-centering and dissipating higher amount of energy compared to the full-length steel strands.


The questioning method applied to teaching chemistry in junior middle school could achieve good results.The question designing of chemistry in junior middle school should look out that the problem situation must close to the student's life;the answers should be open,and all students have to be taken account of.


Intensity of implementation, diversity, and damage from complex cyber-attacks are constantly increasing. This process is further enhanced by ongoing expansion of attackers' scope of knowledge of the weak spots of computer networks and improvement of invasion technologies. Existing concepts of information system security assessment do not allow us to operationally consider changes of factors, which determine the efficiency of protection.Cybernetic segment of electric power grids has its own peculiar features, which, if properly taken into consideration, can improve the efficiency of security assessment. We suggest an approach to development of a procedure for operative assessment of electric power grid cyber-security condition, based on knowledge of the relevant threat level and of particular features of the processes related to control of these grids.The paper includes the results of analysis of components of the suggested assessment system, and defines the fundamental principles of its functioning.


The paper presents a kinetic model of anaerobic digestion based on mass balance of substrate, microorganisms and methane production. The model is simulated using a customized Simulink model and the value of maximum specific growth rate of microorganisms is calibrated to fit the theoretical results with experimental ones regarding methane production. The experimental data were obtained during a three months measurements campaign in 2010 at Wastewater Treatment Plant Constanța South, Romania. Key-Words: wastewater treatment, anaerobic digestion, modeling, simulation


The fossil macromammal locality of Alcoy (province of Alicante, Spain) is known since the middle of the 19th century. Ever since then, its age has been disputed as the latest Miocene or the earliest Pliocene. There are several sites in the area that yielded micromammals: Alcoy-Barranco, Alcoy-N, Alcoy-4B and Alcoy-2, which range in age from MN13 to MN15, that is from the latest Miocene to the early Pliocene. The large mammals, however, all come from Alcoy-Mina, an old lignite mine. We have revised this material kept in various European collections. The faunal list is the following: Agriotherium insigne (Gervais, 1859), Ursus boeckhi Schlosser, 1899, Anancus arvernensis (Croizet


The thickness of a Cantor set on the real line is a measurement of its «size». Thickness conditions have been used to guarantee that the intersection of two Cantor sets is nonempty. We present sharp conditions on the thicknesses of two Cantor sets which imply that their intersection contains a Cantor set of positive thickness


There are some problems in steelmaking with hot metal containing low silicon content such as difficulty in slag formation, less slag for dephosphorization and slag adhesion on oxygen lance and hood. To overcome these problems, experiments were conducted and some improvements were obtained, such as adding appropriate flux, increasing the lance position slightly during steelmaking and using effective multi-outlet nozzle. Moreover, to keep normal heating rate, the ore and scrap charge should be reduced due to less chemical heat input in steelmaking.


To achieve real-time performance in signal processing applications that require the estimation of higher order statistics, it is necessary to introduce parallel processing and pipelining. The authors present a two stage VLSI architecture for the computation of all the non-negative lags of the cumulants of a real, one-dimensional data sequence. All the non-negative lags of the moments, up to the fourth order, are computed first by a triangular array, based on the indirect block-type estimation approach (C. L. Nikias and M. R. Roghuveer, 1987). The second and fourth order moments are then used to compute the fourth order cumulants using additional processors. A systematic algorithm-to-architectures synthesis methodology facilitated the design of both parts of the architecture and their optimal space and data flow matching.<<ETX>>


. In 2016, Leclerc constructed conjectural cluster structures on open Richardson varieties using representations of preprojective algebras. A variant with more explicit seeds was obtained by M´enard in his thesis. We show that M´enard's seeds do yield upper cluster algebra structures on open Richardson varieties and discuss the problems that remain in order to prove that they are cluster algebra structures.


Kevlar pulp treated with low-temperature plasma and nano cellulose fibrils (NCFs) have been introduced as reinforcements in the preparation for composite insulating paper with low relative permittivity, dielectric loss, good mechanical properties, and thermal stability. More polar groups of Kevlar fibers could be exposed after plasma treatment. Results showed that the relative permittivity of the composite paper containing 20% Kevlar pulp, 10% NCF, and 70% softwood pulp is decreased by 29.6% and the dielectric loss is decreased by 43.2% at 50 Hz, 25°, compared with the conventional paper formed by pure softwood pulp. The change was due to the introduction of Kevlar pulp with intrinsic low dielectric constant and loss, which decreases the whole polarizability of the paper. The mechanical properties of the composite paper became worse after introducing 20% Kevlar pulp. About 10% NCF can work as a mechanical reinforcement to compensate for the tensile and Yang's modulus loss. Scanning electron microscopy results showed that NCF could fill the void defects and improve the interface bonding of the fibers to enhance the paper mechanical properties. The composite paper also had better insulating and thermal properties than the conventional paper. It has been concluded that the Kevlar pulp/NCF/softwood pulp composite paper has the potential to replace the pure softwood paper for the application of high-voltage ac transformer insulation.


Abstract : Conditioned medium (CM) collected from adipocyte stromal cells (ASC) of WAT of both Glipr1+/+ and Glipr1 / adult males after surgical castration (or sham) were analyzed for presence of secreted growth promoting factors. Effects of CM from ASCs of each 4 subtypes of Glipr gene status were evaluated using normal human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) and mouse prostate cancer cells (RM-9). CM from castrated Glipr1 / ASCs promoted the highest cell proliferation and tubule formation of HUVEC cells, and cell proliferation and invasion of mouse (RM-9) prostate cancer cells compared with ASCs-CM from both shamed Glipr1+/+ and Glipr1 / mice and castrated Glipr1+/+ male mice. Microarray assay results showed higher level of proliferin secreted in the CM-ASCs from castrated Glipr1+/+ and Glipr1 / mice compared to shamed Glipr1+/+ and Glipr1 / male mice and higher level in Glipr1 / compared to Glipr1+/+ CM-ASC. These stimulating effects of cell proliferation, tubule formation, and invasion were reduced when CM-ASC from castrated Glipr1 / ASCs was pretreated with prolierin antibody. Thus, we surmise secreted proliferin from WAT promotes cell proliferation and tubule formation of HUVEC and mouse prostate cancer cell invasion and castration induces proliferin secretion.


The quantitation of isoenzymes in body fluids has obvious applications in the diagnosis of disease. a-Amylase (E.C. 184.108.40.206.), of molecular weight 50,000, also occurs in multiple molecular forms. This heterogeneity was initially discovered in animals and later extended to man. The evidence has been principally electrophoretic (N0rby, 1964; Muus and Vnenchak, 1964: Berk, Searcey, Hayashi, and Ujihira, 1965; Kamaryt and Laxova, 1965;Aw, 1966). Extracts of salivary glands and pancreas, saliva, serum, and urine were shown to contain cathodally running bands of amylolytic activity differing only slightly in mobility. Recently the isoenzymes of amylase (isoamylases) from human pancreas, saliva, and milk have been partially purified with the use of Deae Sephadex and gel filtration thus demonstrating a chromatographic heterogeneity as well (Aw and Hobbs, 1966). Urinary isoamylases are separable into 'pancreatic' and 'salivary' according to their electrophoretic mobilities compared with marker pancreatic and salivary enzymes. This organ specificity may, in fact, be oversimplified (see Discussion). It is well known that patients with chronic pancreatitis more often than not have serum and urinary amylase values within normal limits. We were interested in studying urinary isoamylase patterns and in finding out whether patients with exocrine pancreatic deficiency exhibited a decrease in the activity of the pancreatic zone.


Through discover the Species Distribution,survey the host plants and keep observation of Luehdorfia chinensis(Leech)in TaoHongLing of Jiangxi.We can find out the distributing area and number of Luehdorfia chinensis(Leech)in TaoHongLing natural reserve of Jiangxi.It also Provides the detailed fundamental research for protecting Luehdorfia chinensis(Leech)in Jiangxi


This article analyses the dynamics of electoral pro mises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It exte nds the literature by considering sanctions from the electorate and lobbies when the incumbent does not satisfy the expected performance she promised to deliver. This framework allows to deal with the intertemporal dimension needed to understand the prevalent cycle of promises, disappointment, new promises, new disappointment ... Key-words: Lobbies, Promises, Elections, Electoral competiti on, Lies JEL Classification: D72, P16 * Equippe, Université de Lille 1, Faculté des Scienc es Économiques et Sociales, 59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France; Contact : Etienne.Farvaque@univ-lill e1.fr. ** Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie; Contact : lag email@example.com. E. Farvaque has benefited from a grant from the Fre nch Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, n° FRAL 022). We would like to thank Corinna Ahlfeld, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, Felix Bierbrauer, Simon Burke, Matt hieu Crozet, Marina Della Giusta, Uma Kambhampati, Claud e Léostic, Ricardo Magnani, Stephen McKnight, Christian Nygaard, Sandra Poncet, Catherine Ris, An tonio Savoia, participants of the PGPPE 08 Workshop (Bonn), of a CEPII external seminar and of a Facult y seminar at the University of Reading. The usual d isclaimer applies.


Taking four kinds of gardening Sedum with market potential and two kinds of wild Sedum with the development value as materials,using the methods with the score of appearance drought resistance index,coverage and color,by analyzing the membership function of test data to make a comprehensive evaluation of six kinds of plants under drought and normal management,the six stonecrop plants' drought resistance and adaptability.The results showed that the sequence of drought applicability from strong to weak was,Sedum sarmentosumSedum sarmentosum.cv.Sedum reflexum.cv.Sedum sexangulare.cv.Sedum linera.cv.Sedum polytrichoidis.Under normal management,the result was Sedum sarmentosum Sedum sarmentosum.cv.Sedum reflexum.cv.Sedum linera.cv.Sedum sexangulare.cv.Sedum polytrichoidis.To provide the theoretical basis,and promote landscaping application and production in the future.


Irregular flowering and biennial bearing are challenging in many apple (Malus ×domestica) cultivars such as Honeycrisp. Apple flowering is influenced by many factors including crop load, fruit weight, seed number, and bourse shoot length. However, it is unclear how these factors exert their control. We investigated flowering in 'Honeycrisp' and whether flower formation is regulated locally within the spur or if it is under the control of the whole tree system. Treatments consisting of 30 to 240 fruit per tree with one or two fruit per spur were applied, and seed number, fruit weight, bourse shoot length, bourse number, and resulting flower formation measured. In 2013, flowering was affected by fruit number per tree, fruit number per spur and their interaction, and with lower total tree crop loads, spurs bearing two fruit had fewer flowers than those with a single fruit. In 2014, few spurs formed flowers regardless of treatment. In 2013, flowering was unaffected by seed number on single-fruited spurs but flowering inhibition was correlated with fruit weight. In spurs bearing two fruit, flowering was inhibited by higher seed numbers but fruit weight per spur had no effect on flowering. Our data suggest that both whole tree and within-spur characteristics contribute to local flower formation. Therefore, 'Honeycrisp' spurs can be considered semiautonomous organs because inhibition of flower formation appears to be related to the depletion of resources both locally within the spurs, and systematically within the whole tree. The main factors associated with flower formation were fruit number per tree, fruit number per spur, bourse shoot length, and bourse number per spur. In contrast to previous reports, our data show that seeds do not play a direct role in regulating flower formation.


One of the most striking patterns in comparative biology is the negative correlation between lifespan and fecundity observed in comparisons among species. This pattern is consistent with the idea that organisms need to allocate a fixed energy budget among competing demands of growth, development, reproduction and somatic maintenance. However, exceptions to this pattern have been observed in many social insects, including ants, bees, and termites. In honey bees ( ), ( ), a yolk protein precursor, has Apis mellifera Vitellogenin Vg been implicated in mediating the long lifespan and high fecundity of queen bees. To determine if -like proteins can regulate lifespan in insects generally, Vg we examined the effects of expression of and (a Apis Vg Drosophila CG31150 -like gene recently identified as ) on lifespan Vg cv-d Drosophila melanogaster and fecundity using the RU486-inducible GeneSwitch system. For all genotypes tested, overexpression of and decreased Vg CG31150 Drosophila lifespan and did not affect total or age-specific fecundity. We also detected an apparent effect of the GeneSwitch system itself, wherein RU486 exposure (or the GAL4 expression it induces) led to a significant increase in longevity and decrease in fecundity in our fly strains. This result is consistent with the pattern reported in a recent meta-analysis of aging studies, where Drosophila transgenic constructs of the UAS/GAL4 expression system that should have no effect (e.g. an uninduced GeneSwitch) significantly extended lifespan in some genetic backgrounds. Our results suggest that family genes are not major Vgregulators of life history traits, and highlight the importance of using Drosophila appropriate controls in aging studies. Yingxue Ren ( ) Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.com Ren Y and Hughes KA (2014) How to cite this article: family gene expression does not increase lifespan or Vitellogenin Drosophila 2014, :125 (doi: ) fecundity [v1; ref status: indexed, ] http://f1000r.es/3ac F1000Research 3 10.12688/f1000research.3975.1 © 2014 Ren Y and Hughes KA. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution Licence , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication). Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver This research was supported by National Science Foundation grant DEB 0848337 and National Institutes of Health grant Grant information: AG022824 to KAH. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Competing interests: No competing interests were disclosed. 10 Jun 2014, :125 (doi: ) First published: 3 10.12688/f1000research.3975.1 24 Jun 2014, :125 (doi: ) First indexed: 3 10.12688/f1000research.3975.1 Referees


With new direct dates from rock paintings comes an unprecedented opportunity to relate excavated archaeological data to the parietal record in southern Africa's Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains. Anchoring dated art to recovered palaeoenvironmental, faunal and technological data enables the incorporation into socioecological models of ideational inferences, affording insights into how hunter-gatherers perceived their mountain habitats. Of particular interest is the late Holocene Neoglacial (∼3.5–2 kcal BP), during which skilled paintings were being made just as the region experienced dynamic changes owing in part to climate change. Responses of local foragers are evident across a range of cultural spheres, including dramatic subsistence transformations. With the Maloti-Drakensberg's well-known "traditional corpus" of fine-line art now known to extend back to at least 3 kcal BP, here we explore how such changes may have precipitated – and in turn been influenced by – ontological shifts in relation to the food quest. As desirable game declined and hunting windows narrowed, we suggest that Neoglacial foragers sought to manage scheduling and social conflicts through enhanced spiritual negotiation with non-human entities in the landscape. Facilitated by the supernaturally charged nature of their elevated cosmos, this intensified spiritual labour may have found material expression in an elaborate new style of painting.


The increasing investment in developing high quality systems for
online learning has focused more on technology with little regard for learners'
readiness to learn through such systems. One of the reasons for this was an
assumption that most students have the necessary capacity (technical and
attitudinal) to deal with online learning. This assumption is increasingly being
challenged in recent years. This paper explores the difficulties experienced by
online learners and develops a diagnostic survey instrument to ascertain learner
readiness to participate in online learning environments. Through confirmatory
factor analysis, four factors were identified: Technical skills, Learner
self-efficacy, Learning preference and Learner attitude. This paper reports on
the design and development of the survey instrument.


(57) Abstract: The present invention comprises the following components: a) reacting the compound of formula (C): Wherein, Macro, in turn represent the m groups R These polymers are particularly suitable for the production of moldings, such as contact lenses.


Two neural-network architectures are compared with a classical spline interpolation technique for the approximation of functions useful in a nonlinear control system. A standard back-propagation feedforward neural network and a Cerebellar Model Articulation Controller (CMAC) neural network are presented, and their results are compared with a B-spline interpolation procedure that is updated using recursive least-squares parameter identification. Each method is able to accurately represent a one-dimensional test function. Trade-offs between size requirements, speed of operation, and speed of learing indicate that neural networks may be practical for identification and adaptation in a nonlinear control environment.


This article firstly introduces the S3C2440 touch screen driver module briefly, and elaborates the driver design and the realization of resistance-type touch screen after analyzing the principle of the touch screen driver module under Windows CE operating system. And then, the touch screen calibration algorithm, on the basis of the least square, is proposed to improve the precision of calibration.


Decommissioning projects at Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) sites are conducted under project-specific decision documents, which involve extensive preparation time, public comment periods, and regulatory approvals. Often, the decision documents must be initiated at least one year before commencing the decommissioning project, and they are expensive and time consuming to prepare. The Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site (RFETS) is a former nuclear weapons production plant at which hazardous substances and wastes were released or disposed during operations. As a result of the releases, RFETS was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989, and is conducting cleanup activities under a federal facilities compliance agreement. Working closely with interested stakeholders and state and federal regulatory agencies, RFETS has developed and implemented an improved process for obtaining the approvals. The key to streamlining the approval process has been the development of sitewide decision documents called Rocky Flats Cleanup Agreement Standard Operating Protocols or ''RSOPs.'' RSOPs have broad applicability, and could be used instead of project-specific documents. Although no two decommissioning projects are exactly the same and they may vary widely in contamination and other hazards, the basic steps taken for cleanup are usually similar. Because of this, using RSOPsmore » is more efficient than preparing a separate project-specific decision documents for each cleanup action. Over the Rocky Flats cleanup life cycle, using RSOPs has the potential to: (1) Save over 5 million dollars and 6 months on the site closure schedule; (2) Eliminate preparing one hundred and twenty project-specific decision documents; and (3) Eliminate writing seventy-five closure description documents for hazardous waste unit closure and corrective actions.« less


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APRILIA ALDEAR RUSHARYANI. A320130160. THE ASPECT OF LESBIANISM OF CELIE REFLECTED IN ALICE WALKER THE COLOR PURPLE NOVEL (1982): A FEMINIST APPROACH. Research Paper. School of Teacher Training and Education. Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta. 2017. 52 Pages.

This study aims to explain the aspect of lesbian of the main character that occurred in The Color Purple (1982) novel by Alice Walker using feminism theory. The Color Purple (1982) novel analysis refers to two points. First is the analysis based on structural elements, the second is an analysis of lesbian aspects that use the theory of feminism. This research uses descriptive qualitative approach. This study uses two sources of data, the first is The Color Purple (1982) novel by Alice Walker which is the main source of this novel. The second source of data is the searching from books, journals, author biographies, and research-related sources. The two types of sources are obtained through libraries and the internet analyzed using descriptive analysis. Based on these studies, the researcher concluded some conclusions. The first is the structural element of the novel obtained through character and characterization, the setting of place and time, plot, point of view, and theme arranged into one as a story in The Color Purple (1982) novel. The second is based on the theory of feminism particularly radical feminism that occurs in the main character in The Color Purple (1982) novel.

Keywords: Lesbian, Structural Element Novel, Feminist Theory


Risperidone (RIS) is an atypical antipsychotic which can be clinically used to treat certain specific symptoms of autism in children and adolescents as per international guidelines and scientific literature. However, globally sparse literature is available regarding accidental ingestion and toxicity of RIS despite the increasing frequency of its usage in children and adolescents. A rare case of accidental RIS ingestion in a toddler with autism has been reported. It has been reviewed and discussed with the support of relevant literature regarding the clinical aspects and management.


We exploit the connection between boosting and greedy coordinate optimization to produce new accelerated boosting methods. Specifically, we look at increasing block sizes, better selection rules, and momentumtype acceleration. Numerical results show training convergence gains over several data sets. The code is made publicly available.


Paper 3 – Conditions for praxis: local and global Ian Hardy (University of Queensland), Ingrid Henning-Loeb (University of Gothenburg, Sweden), Anita Norlund (University of Boras, Sweden), Kiprono ...


The article tells about the circumstances of defense of Lossky's dissertation and the reaction to it of one of the main opponents — major Russian philosopher Alexander Wedensky. The Supplement contains Wedensky's review on Lossky's dissertation.


The Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970 the first major federal legislation dealing solely with population authorized the expenditure of $225 million for family planning services and $145 million for research over a 3-year period. This was to be spent by the administration in addition to family planning funding already authorized for the Dept. of Health Education and Welfare the Office of Economic Opportunity and the State Dept. So far only a small amount of the authorized money has been spent by the administration signalling waning administration interest in population affairs. The research money would go to the Center for Population Research in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. NIH has traditionally favored basic biomedical research instead of practically-oriented studies. It is believed that population research would fare better if removed from the jurisdiction of NIH and put under another agency.


G association studies (GWAS) have become a popular approach for searching for common genetic variants which increase susceptibility to complex diseases or traits. At the transcriptome level, RNA sequencing (RNA-Seq) is rapidly emerging as a powerful tool for identifying differentially expressed genes in diseases. Recently, pathway or network-based analysis of genomic datasets has emerged as an alternative but potentially powerful approach to searching for disease causal genes, assuming a complex disease might have resulted from a number of genes which disrupt one or more pathways or protein complexes. We applied several pathway enrichment methods to schizophrenia GWAS datasets including Gene Set Enrichment Analysis (GSEA), hypergeometric test, and a generalized additive model (GAM). At the network level, we developed a dense module searching (DMS) method to identify candidate subnetworks or genes for complex diseases by integrating the association signal from GWAS datasets into the human protein-protein interaction (PPI) network. Finally, we performed a pathway analysis of schizophrenia RNA-Seq data. We found several pathways that were top ranked and likely associated with schizophrenia by these methods. These pathways are related to metabolism of glutamate, the process of apoptosis, inflammation, and immune system. Our pathway analysis of RNA-Seq data generally supported these findings. Our analysis suggested pathway and network approaches are promising in post-GWAS era and may complement the original analysis of genomics datasets such as GWAS and RNA-Seq.


An object of the invention is to provides a piezoelectric layer made of potassium sodium niobate for further improving piezoelectric constant. The piezoelectric layer made of potassium sodium niobate which is a perovskite type compound represented by the formula ABO3 , wherein, in the Raman spectroscopy measurement of the piezoelectric layer which is performed while the piezoelectric layer is rotated in the in-plane direction, the measured intensity of the lattice vibration region of the perovskite type compound in the Raman spectrum obtained in polarized Raman spectroscopy measurement (yx) has a periodicity of approximately 90 DEG , wherein, the polarized Raman spectroscopy measurement (yx) is performed while the piezoelectric layer is rotated in the in-plane direction and Raman scattering light is polarized in a direction perpendicular to that of the incident light.


FORJAD (Formation Professionelle pour le Jeunes Adults en Difficulte) was a program of social policy implemented in Switzerland since 2006. Its specific aim is to sustain the professional training of young unemployed adults (18 - 25) in order to allow them to become autonomous from the social assistance and to (re)entry into the labour market. This paper deals with specific dimensions of this program, with particular reference to its complex and plural governance and to the cultural framework of the Social Investment Welfare State (SIWS). This paradigm tries to connect the logics of activation and training with the necessity to realize a better quality of welfare services and to invest in personal capabilities of welfare recipients. In this framework, FORJAD seems to represent a social innovation realized to contrast at a local level the young unemployment as an example of emergent new social risks.


Objective To investigate the city cockroach present background status of Hebei pro vince,establish control measures and control its harm.Methods Luring in bottle way、drug stimulate way、adhibit catch way、observation and d escription in field, morphological taxonomy、grey relative analysis、pathogen or parasite routine detectino、resistant assay to insecticides、insecticides lab e xperiment assay.Results 8 species of city cockroach in Hebei province belonged to 4 genera of 4 families ,average violation rate was much hi gher than examine standard of cities all over the country.Blattella ge rmanica were predominance in city and had got two density flood for the year.Cockroach body surface carrier r ate of pathogen or parasite was as high as 96.77%.It had resistance to 5 inse cticides.Both biological and bait formulation had good efficacy against cockroa ches.Integrated management and related technology should be taken and had exper iments in 3 cities.Conclusion This experiment provided scient ific evidence and technology for Hebei province city cockroach control .


Energy management systems for microgrids (EMS-MG) play an important role in ensuring their stable and economic operation. This paper presents a multiagent-based hybrid EMS-MG (HEMS-MG) with both centralized and decentralized energy control functionalities. Based on this framework, three-level hierarchical energy management strategies are presented, in which a cooperation method with contract net protocol and multifactor evaluation mechanisms are applied. A coordinated energy management framework is realized by the combination of autonomous control of local distributed energy resources at the local level with coordinated energy control at the central level of the microgrid. A novel simulation platform for the HEMS-MG is designed in terms of the client-server frame and implemented under the C++ Builder environment. To prove the effectiveness and benefits of the proposed control system, an example of generation cooperation control of a laboratory microgrid is provided. The simulation results show that the proposed control system is an effective way to manage and optimize microgrid operation.


Interference demodulation method and filtering demodulation method are two main wavelength demodulation methods for Fiber Bragg Gratings sensors applied in industrial field at home and abroad in recent years.Their principles, structures, advantages and disadvantages are discussed in this paper firstly, a novel demodulation method based on WDM fiber coupler is proposed later.At last, the challenges need to be solved in the further commercialization of Fiber Bragg Grating sensors are discussed and the prospects of them are given.


Today, even after hundreds of years, fear is still present in most organizations, terrifying the authorities and employees. Organizational fear has become a barrier that prevents employees from realizing their full potential as well as decreases individual effectiveness at work. Fear negatively impacts employee performance such as un-motivated employees at the workplace, creates a silent culture, delays decision-making, leading to job dissatisfaction, reduces productivity, and prevents innovativeness and development in the organization. However, increasing competition in the world market today causes organizations to be more demanding of employees who are expected to have more initiative at jobs, able to voice out and accept responsibility due to intense competition in various industries. The aim of this study is to determine the factors of organizational fear that influences the effective performance for employees who are fresh graduates. In this study, five related factors will be tested namely, childhood socialization, institutional socialization, cultural socialization, fear of workplace penalty and fear of being terminated from work. This study will be carried out by distributing structured questionnaires to employees who are fresh graduates. Throughout this study, it may assist organizations in understanding and identifying the factors of organizational fear that influence effective performance. Moreover, this study enables the organization to implement solutions to eliminate fear among employees for better performance in achieving individual and company goals.


Humans are created by living in pairs. The creation of humans from male and female types is the forerunner of human reproduction in order to continue the existence of human life in this world. The purpose of creating a human in a pair, male and female, is so that humans can feel calm and serenity in life, ask each other, and maintain mutual relationships. With the family, it becomes one bridge through which to realize the goal of human creation. This research studies the nature of the family in life. The method in this research is a library research by collecting different references in studying the family. This article summarizes various things about the entire family.


Energetic particle populations such as fusion alphas, beams and RF tails can drive a wide variety of shear Alfven instabilities in toroidal confinement systems. These instabilities lead to enhanced loss of fast ions and decreased heating efficiencies. Our gyrofluid stability model has recently been extended to include sheared plasma flow velocities. We also discuss recent results from applying this model to ITER, TFTR, and W7-AS.


The environmental status in rural areas in China is analyzed.The faint awareness of environmental protection,the extensive agricultural production,the disengagement of environment management and control models with the realities in rural areas,and the weak scientific research force of environmental protection are the main reasons of environmental pollution which is difficult to solve.To effectively solve the environmental problems in rural area,the countermeasures are put forward,including strengthening the propaganda to increase the environmental protection consciousness of rural areas,greatly developing the ecological agriculture,strengthening the rural drinking water safety and domestic water treatment,carrying out the classified collection and resource utilization of rural living garbage,perfecting the grassroots environmental agencies and strengthening the law enforcement dynamics of environmental protection to effectively control the rural industry pollution,increasing the investment and doing well the construction of basic facilities,actively promoting the construction of the urbanization and industrial park,strengthening the scientific research of rural environmental protection and accelerating the popularization and application of new technology.


Accurate prediction of all physical phenomena in a combustion chamber is essential for better understanding of the system performance. Atomization, evaporation, combustion, chemical kinetics, and turbulence are those processes of great importance that need to be well understood. Processes involving the liquid phase in a combustion chamber will be further complicated under supercritical conditions. More advanced and accurate numerical techniques are required to extend our understanding of the above phenomena. A computer program for multi-species/multi-phase flow was developed for NASA/MSFC in 1992. This code, called Liquid Thrust Chamber Performance (LTCP) program takes an Eulerian- Eulerian approach and is based on the Total Variation Diminishing (TVD) technique with Lax-Friedrichs upwind method. Under the NASA/ASEE SFFP the LTCP code was used to predict the performance characteristics of several engines that were of particular interest to NASA. This code was also successful in a combustion detonation study. Converting the program to the PC platform was accomplished which extends usability and makes it available to a wider range of users. The Eulerian formulation of the liquid phase provides a suitable model that can be extended to include combustion modeling under supercritical conditions. The results have been compared against the ones of other codes and available measured data. The algorithm proved to be robust and efficient for problems with stiff source terms.


Introduction: The lunar poles are a dynamic and complex thermal environment. Some locations experience temperature variations >150 K on diurnal and seasonal timescales, and the surface area of belowfreezing terrain more than doubles from summer to winter [1]. While this dynamic thermal environment has important implications for the activity of the lunar volatile cycle [2], it may also have important implications for the degradation of the landscape. Thermal stress weathering can contribute to the degradation of impact craters as thermal cycling enhances rock breakdown and regolith mobilization, particularly on airless bodies like the Moon [3]. Thermal cycling has a particularly large amplitude at the lunar poles [1]. Here we are interested in how thermal stresses possibly influence the degradation of small polar craters, using slope as a morphometric measure of crater degradation. Various other factors besides thermal stresses can influence crater slopes, such as the presence of coldtrapped volatiles. Previous works observed a shallowing of lunar polar craters with latitude that may be related to the accumulation of ice [4, 5]. If ice accumulations are indeed influencing crater morphometries, their influence on crater slope is expected to be greatest on (typically colder) pole-facing (PF) slopes [5], and thus here we analyze equator-facing (EF) and PF slopes separately. Methods: Starting with a comprehensive lunar crater database [6], we identified all impact craters that (i) are unambiguously craters, (ii) are located between 87 and 90°S (where the highest-resolution topographic measurements exist) [7], (iii) have diameters <7 km (to mitigate scale-dependent crater degradation effects), (iv) are not located on the walls of larger craters (to mitigate effects of impacts into sloped terrain), and (v) are not superposed by other small craters (to mitigate influences of imprinting topography). This resulted in a study population of 1,337 craters, with an average diameter of 2.15 km. (Fig. 1). For each crater, we extracted slope and azimuth measurements using new Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) topography models, which have a pixel scale of 5 m and uncertainties with typical root-mean-squared values of ~2° [7, 8]. Azimuth (i.e., direction of slope) is important because it heavily influences the amount of incident solar radiation [9, 10]. We define EF slopes by azimuths of 180°E ± 30° and PF slopes by azimuths of 0°E ± 30°.


With the globalisation of the world food market, and the infiltration of homogeneous societies by large ethni-cally different groups the classical approach of food production that food produced in a certain geographical area corresponded automatically with the cultural and religious traditions of the inhabitants of the area is not any more valid. This is especially true for North America and Europe where in the last years more and more multicultural societies have been developed with pronounced and special claims regarding their diets. In this respect particularly the Jewish and the Muslim communities are relevant, but also the Buddhist and Hindu communities require the observation of certain regulations in the preparation of their diet, not to mention requirements of vegan groups/vegetarians or Christian groups with special fasten rules. Most obvious and well known are Jewish and Muslim regulations concerning the inclusion of animal products in the diet. "Haram (Islam)"/"Treifah (Not Kosher)(Judaism)" i.e. not allowed are in both religions for example pork products and products derived from blood, furthermore the allowed animals have to be slaughtered according to ritual rules. Other regulations concern the type of allowed marine products and special processing methods. Haram that means not allowed in the Muslim community are also alcohol. The ban on pork products in both religions and on alcohol in Islam have considerable consequences in modern food production. Because of the undis-putable regulations no food additives which contain/have been produced on pork or pork derived substrates i.e. gelatine or contain/have been extracted with alcohol are in general allowed, even in traces. "Halal" and "Kosher" food processing i.e. food processing according to the Islamic and Jewish religious regulations require the observation of further processing principles which complicate modern processing techniques. The processed products should not contain any contaminants from otherwise processed products or the process must be supervised by religious authorities (Judaism). Buddhist and Hindu regulations concerning the daily diet are less strict. Buddhism as the religion of the "Middle


Increasing survival rates for childhood cancer have brought attention to the high level of burden of cancer and its treatment. Improving supportive care for children throughout their cancer trajectory is thus important and could reduce the difficulties related to treatment, including time-consuming treatments and the waiting time associated with treatment procedures. The aim of this study is to describe time intervals and the Propofol dose used during sedation for intrathecal chemotherapy in three different settings. The study is based on retrospective data from repeated treatment sessions recorded in operation planning programs and hospital records in the period 2011–2018 (n = 164). Children, 1–12 years old (n = 22), undergoing a varying number of treatments, were included in the study. The most crucial finding in this study is that the time from the child's first meeting with the nurse anesthetist to the induction of sedation is significantly reduced if the procedure is performed in the children's ward. The study highlights the importance of the setting for sedation for intrathecal chemotherapy when implementing a child-centered approach in pediatric oncology care.


A system to track target and anti-theft alarm based on infrared wave is presented,which can track target in real-time,but also can realize the alarm application if it is a ″strange visitor″.The working principle of the system is introduced,the circuit board of every model is how to design,and working principle of the core components is analysed.The system works stably with a low false alarm rate through the experiment.It can be used as security system in the buildings which require high confidentiality.


This study evaluates the Brazilian control instruments of transfer pricing in imports in
face of the international guidelines on the subject and the so-called arm's length principle.
Firstly, the historical and geopolitical circumstances that motivated the increasing relevance
of the theme worldwide and in Brazil will be presented. Thereafter, the implications of the
arm's length principle in transfer pricing and its tacit acceptance in the Brazilian legal system
will be analised. Ultimately, the methods of transfer pricing available in the Brazilian
legislation will be presented, as well as its connection with the international experience
related to the subject.


This work presents a new methodology, based on the work of Menasce et al (1999) to build business analysis for the evaluation of the importance of individual customer groups to the business model of a web-based electronic business application. This can be accomplished by breaking the customer base into groups and measuring the monetary income and the resource consumption for each group. This work also describes a software tool modeling to measure th


The aim of Library Administration course led by Professor Gilda Chacon is that in addition to understanding the theory to be developed objectives for good management, learn to apply to a library or a department. Our group through this study sought to determine in what way the principles and purposes of the administration are applied in the Reference Department of the Central Library of the National University. Importantly, we believe that the Department of reference is the union between the user and bibliographic, and that its aim is to keep the user the right information. The theoretical part of the paper is prepared based on guided reading and class discussion of the basic literature presented in the course syllabus, information corresponding to the reference unit was obtained through collaboration that the staff gave us the same through interviews, written data, reports and so on.


The article makes polynomial as the matrix form、uses its operation quality and defines theoperation ofthe polynomial plus、minus and multiply.It not only simplifies the operation on polynomial、but also lays a foundation on the study for the polynomial quality and its division.


In this article the peculiarities of contemporary development. The article gives the author''s understanding of the place and role of the system of land resources management at the state and regional level. The author examines the social and political peculiarities of the formation of modern system of land management. Defines the system in the broad and specific understanding in relation to the state system of land management. The basic principles and Avista system of land management in the context of this management system. Examines the management function as a complex socio-natural-economic environment designed to provide a level of activity and development. In the General understanding of "management" is a specialized impact management in order to achieve the desired result. In fact, if we consider the administration of the land relations in a broader sense, it includes a wide range of public relations. As a result, the administration of the land relations is a direct influence on these relations, to obtain the given result and more qualitative characteristics control. Considered the main purpose of land management is a rational, effective redistribution between rational land users involvement in the turnover of all kinds of land use and protection, which include the protection of the rights of the state, legal entities and citizens on the ground, creation of conditions for equal development of various forms of land management, formation and the development of simple and complex land market.


Objectives: To measure the frictional resistance between self-ligating or conventional bracket and arch-wire at different contact angles.To analyse the effect of bracket,angulation and arch-wire material on the friction between bracket and arch-wire.Methods: Brackets to be measured in this experiment were self-ligating brackets(DamonⅢ,In-ovation) and conventional pre-adjusted metal bracket.They were upper first premolar brackets.Instron8841 universal testing machine was used to measure the frictional resistance between brackets and different kinds of arch-wires(0.016in Ni-Ti arch-wire,0.016in Australian wire,0.018×0.025in Ni-Ti arch-wire、0.018×0.025in stainless steel wire).Friction resistances were measured at different angulations(0°,3°,6°,9°).Results: The self-ligating bracket had a markedly lower friction than conventional bracket at all angulations.Following the increase of angulations,friction increased for both self-ligating bracket and conventional bracket.The increase of frictional resistance was more pronounced in the case of stainless steel and Australian wire than Ni-Ti wire.Conclusion: Bracket design,wire material and size,and contact angle significantly influence the friction between bracket and wire.Self-ligating bracket can markedly reduce the friction.


Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Department, Dhahran Eye Specialist Hospital, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Purpose: To compare the treatment efficacy of optical correction and occlusion therapy and/ or penalization for different anisometropic refractive errors (hyperopic, myopic, and mixed). Methods: Medical records of 51 patients with anisometropic amblyopia managed by both optical correction and occlusion therapy and/or penalization were evaluated retrospectively. Patients were categorized into hyperopic, myopic or mixed anisometropia groups. Cycloplegic refraction, spherical anisometropia, baseline visual acuity, baseline interocular difference, final visual acuity and final interocular difference were analyzed to assess association between type of anisometropia with both resolution of anisometropic amblyopia and the time required to achieve it. Results: Baseline visual acuity of the amblyopic was 0.94±0.47 in the hyperopic group; 1.12 ±0.56, in themyopic group; and 1.08 ±0.39 in themixed group. Final visual acuity in the amblyopic eye was 0.34±0.30 in the hyperopic group, 0.78±0.59 in the myopic group, and 0.78±0.56 in the mixed group. The difference in final visual acuity in the amblyopic eye between the groups was significant (P=0.014). The amblyopia was improved in 50% of patients in the hyperopic group, 23.8% in the myopic group, and 14.3% in the mixed group (P=0.081). The type of anisometropia was significantly associatedwith the improvement of visual acuity in the amblyopic eyes (P=0.044). The mean time for amblyopia improvement was 16.50±10.52 months in the hyperopic groups, 15.60±12.44 months in the myopic group, and 21.00±21.21 months in the mixed group (P=0.947). Conclusion: Lower amounts of hyperopic anisometropia are as amblyogenic as higher amounts of myopic or mixed anisometropia. Mean improvement in visual acuity of an amblyopic eye with both optical correction, occlusion therapy and/or penalization is higher in patients with hyperopic anisometropia in comparison with myopic or mixed anisometropia. No significant difference was found in the time required to achieve improvement between the study groups.


Differences in the shape and density of crater size-frequency distribution curves have been interpreted as indicators of different impactor populations. Within the inner solar system two production populations are seen. The signature of the first is recorded in the heavily cratered regions of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars and displays a multi-sloped distribution curve which cannot be described by a power law function at all crater diameters. The signature of the second population is seen in the lightly cratered lunar and Martian plains, where the size-frequency distribution curve can be approximated by a power law function of -3 differential slope in the 8- to 70-km diameter range. Based on data obtained from the Apollo lunar samples and crater flux estimates, the first population is believed to have been emplaced during the period of heavy bombardment which, at least on the Moon, ended about 3.8 BY ago. The second population has dominated the cratering record since that time and is commonly assumed to be due to comets and asteroids.


The effects of no-tillage on soil microbial biomass C,N and P(SMBC,SMBN and SMBP) was studied in this paper through the trial designed in Lijiabu county,Anding,Dingxi,Gansu province,in which the method to measure soil microbial biomass is Chloroform Fumigation.The experiment results showed that no-tillage leads to an increase in microbial biomass near the soil surface.Compared with conventional tillage with no straw,SMBC has increased 78.4%,SMBN has increased 89.6%,SMBP has increased 29.6% in 0-5 cm soil layer in the no-till with straw cover.The biological activity of no-till is only reflected in cultivation tier.


Inconel 718 has high chloride resistance and corrosion resistance in saline environment. Similarly SS304 is well known for its good corrosion resistance and better mechanical properties. Joining of SS304 to Inconel718 finds applications in oil and gas industries. Present study focuses on welding of SS304 to Inconel718 by Gas Tungsten Arc Welding (GTAW). Inconel 82 was used as filler metal in order to decrease the laves phase formation. The weld zone was analysed by optical and scanning electron microscopy in order to understand the microstructural aspects. An average ultimate tensile strength of 629MPa was observed. No cracks were observed during 3-point bend test confirming good ductility of the joint. Potentiodynamic polarisation tests was performed to investigate the corrosion resistance of the joint. The welded joints also exhibited comparable corrosion resistance to the parent metals.


(Concludedfrom page 1223.) TREATMENT OF NASAL POLYPI. IF nasal polypi are fairly obvious from the front it may be asstimed that larger ones hang down into the posterior nares. A properly made and slender polypus forceps, with blades serrated down to the hinge, is the best instrument for removing nasal polypi of any size, as they usually are when first attaclijed. It is essential to introduce the left forefinger into the posterior nares so as to guide the forceps. A 20 per cent. solution of cocaine applied both to the anterior and posterior nares (the latter with a bent brush) will do much to make the procedure painless, but the operator should invariably protect his forefinger with a piece of thick indiarubber tubing, since the best Idisposed patients are apt to ,close their teeth involuntarily under the influence of pain. The use ,of a general ansesthetic is to be deprecated, partly *on account of the obstruction to respiration produced by the growth and the finger of the operator, but mainly because of -the danger of blood entering the air passages. However successful the first operation, patients commonly shortly reappear,l with fresh developments. The tendency of the mucous membrane to hypertrophy is not removed by the operation, and a perfect cure could hardly be expected from a single operation. Small polypi are apt to develop on the curved edge and concave surface of the turbinate bones, and eventually to invade the nares. In inveterate cases of recurrent polypus portions of the turbinate bones might be removed with scissors. In ordinary cases. however, the common nasal snare of cold steel wire, which has been in common use in general hospitals for years, is the best in,trument. If the nose be well cocainised by making the patient sniff up the solution from a brush, or by employing a small spray apparatus, a bivalve speculum can be introduced and a good reflected light thrown into the cavity. The #mall polypi.projecting from the mucous membrane can be caught serustsm in the noose, and plucked away with little or no pain or haemorrhage. The abraded surface may be -touched with a solution of nitrate of silver, or with a hot wire. Several operations of the kind may be necessary -before a cure is effected. But while recognising the advantages of carefully conducted operations on small polypi, I must enter a protest against the method, too often adopted by the specialist, of making a series of attacks upon large polypi without effectually clearing the nasal cavity. The result is to give rise to great irritation of the nasal cavity, with considerable fever and general malaise. If the nostrils are once sufficiently cleared to allow of their being thoroughly irrigated with mild antiseptic solutions, there is no danger of any complication of this kind arising, and the treatment of haemorrhage by hot water douching becomes at once available should it be required.


Variations in nucleolus number among angiosperms was reported as back as 1931 by Heitz. Since then, information in this regard is getting enriched on basis of data from large number of plants (Levin 1973, Koul and Wafai 1980, Verma and Raina 1981, Haque 1983, Langer and Koul 1983a and b, Lakshmi and Raghavaiah 1984, Khandakar et al. 1985, Martini and Flavell 1985, Carnide et al. 1986, Koul et al. 1988). Saccharum spontaneum L. (Poaceae) grows naturally in the Indo-gangetic plain, and is widely used in thatching of houses as well as for fodder and fuel. It has of late caught the attention of sugarcane breeders as a suitable germplasm resource (Kandasami et al. 1983, Roach 1986, Sreenivasan et al. 1987). During a study of meiosis in pollen mother cells (PMCs) of a certain clone of this plant, wide range of continuous variation in nucleoli number was observed. Information from this species in this regard is hitherto little known (Sreenivasan 1975, Bir and Sahni 1985) and a description of the same is being given here.


The results of monitoring of knowing andragogic conceptions by students of pedagogical university are introduced. The need to include andragogy into the sphere of pedagogical professional knowledge and social practice of the students is justified


The principal aim of our study was to examine the effect of human resource accounting (Human resource accounting disclosure Index, Training cost, Number of staff and Increment in staff salaries) on corporate financial performance (return on assets and return on equity) of insurance companies quoted on Nigeria Stock Exchange for the period 2012 to 2017. Secondary data of 12 quoted insurance companies were collected mostly from their website and the Nigeria Stock Exchange Port Harcourt office. A non-experimental causal (Ex post facto) research design was appropriately adopted to address the research objectives of the study. The lease square regression analysis, precisely the random effect model was used (with the aid of E-views 10) to empirically answer eight research questions raised in the study. The results showed that human resource accounting disclosure and training cost significantly affect Return on Asset and Return on Equity positively while Number of staff and increment in staff salaries has a statistically significant negative effect on Return on Asset. Based on these results, recommendations were given as follows among others, that: Insurance firms should do more in terms of building the culture of capacity building training, developing and motivating the personnel to put in their best for the financial growth of their organizations and enhancing their capacity to improve organizational performance and Insurance firms should increase their human resource accounting disclosure in other to increase stakeholders' confidence in doing business with them thereby improving its performance.


Games and simulation are a great way to learn theories and new behaviors that can be applied to software engineering activities. The presenters are going to teach three games that can be used in a software engineering course or any course that deals with agile methods. The presenters will talk about the benefits of agile development and how these games will solidify behaviors that are essential to successful agile processes.


This research is inserted in the applied field of language studies and has as general objective to evaluate how a didactic sequence was recontextualized in a class of the third year of secondary school in a state public school located in Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. The didactic sequence was produced collaboratively by two teachers: one who worked as a collaborator and the other as a researcher. The specific objectives are: to analyze the didactic sequence with regard to the distribution of language abilities and to analyze the development of the pupils' linguistic abilities in relation to the writing of the genre of opinion, after the didacticization of the didactic sequence, through the initial and final productions. The research is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of socio-discursive interactionism (Bronckart, 2006, 2007), embodied in the theories of the Geneva school (Schneuwly; Dolz; Noverraz, 2004). Methodologically, this is a qualitative, documentary research. The corpus is constituted by didactic sequences, initial and final productions of the students. The final results, defined from the evaluation of the didactic sequence and the pupils' productions, show that the students advanced significantly in the linguistic-discursive capacity, but only relatively in the capacities of action and discursive.


This thesis includes discussion concerning different knowledge transmitting approaches of art museum and school and the influence upon students' art perception through the project of museum-school collaboration. It aims to examine the connections among the collaboration, the aesthetic competence of the student, and the willingness of museum going as the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had concluded that the ability to perceive art will be an important factor to decide on visiting museums. The author uses case study method along with the aid of in-depth interview and questionnaire for data collecting to review the feedback, impact, and interactive relationship among art museum, artist, and school on the Artist-in-School Program collaborated by MOCA Taipei and Jian Cheng Junior High School. Meanwhile, the paper also explains the procedure and structure of the collaboration. Furthermore, this study takes reference to Bourdieu's discourse to see the how the interrelation is formed within the program. The result of the research can be categories as below: 1.The collaboration between museum and school leads to co-sharing of the knowledge and resources from both parties, and it enhances students' ability of art perception which attributes to the tendency of museum visiting. As for the school, the depth of education is expended through the social resources from the museum. Thus, the reciprocal cycle is formed. 2.Taking the project as a new approach of localization, the museum changes the dynamic of different fields, relates the local community to a new perception of art, and better fulfills its social function. 3.It is a practice of co-constructing participation and knowledge transmission from many aspects, and it demonstrates the infinite possibilities of art presentation. The author wishes to explore the meaning and influence of knowledge transmission and co-constructing participation of art museums and serves this research as possible references for other organizations.


Acute aortic dissection is a life‐threatening disease. To increase the awareness of this diagnosis as a cause of feto‐maternal mortality during pregnancy, we have analyzed risk factors using information from five pregnant women admitted for acute aortic dissection to the Karolinska University Hospital over an eight‐year period (1999–2007). Four of the women died and only one survived. One fetus was stillborn and all newborn infants showed signs of asphyxia at birth. Of the women, who were on average five years above the mean age for delivery in Sweden, three had hypertension, two had first‐degree relatives with aortic dissection which had occurred during the second half of pregnancy (gestational age at diagnosis 26–41 weeks). The most common presenting symptoms were severe back, abdominal and leg pain, and confusion. If a rapid diagnosis is not made, the risk of mortality for both mother and fetus is high. The incidence of aortic rupture during pregnancy in Sweden appears to be 14.5/1,000,000 and the case maternal fatality ratio 4.4/1,000,000.


The speech of four speakers with varying degrees of dysarthria was studied, using spectrographic methods. Some interesting results were obtained, including incomplete realizations of consonants and consonant clusters and long voiceless portions of vowels.


Objective: To study the relationship between semen white blood cells(WBC) and semen major parameters.Methods: Semen WBC,major parameters,abnormal morphological sperm rate,sperm acrosin reaction,AsAb and UU infection were measured and analyzed in 238 infertile men according to WHO laboratory handbook about human semen.Results: Semen WBC 1×106 /ml were 75 cases in 238 male infertility,set up into WBC positive group;Semen WBC≤1×106 /ml were 163 cases,set up into WBC negative group.Semen concentration,motility,a+b grade motility,and sperm acrosin reaction rate in WBC positive group were lower than in WBC negative group(P0.05);Higher abnormal morphological sperm,UU infection rate and AsAb positive rate were observed in WBC positive group(P0.05);Sperm volume,pH value and liquefying time were not significantly different between WBC positive and negative group(P0.05).Conclusion: Sperm WBC have effect on sperm quality,which can be considered as one of the important reasons resulting in male infertility.


1 to measure initiation and data that do exist, out‐ side of a small number of integrated healthcare systems, are often insufficient to draw any val‐ id conclusions.5 Initiation is the first component in the taxon‐ omy and the first step to understanding why pa‐ tients do not take their prescribed medications. Measuring medication initiation provides im‐ portant baseline rates of primary nonadherence in acute and chronic conditions. Reported rates of noninitiation have been shown to vary be‐ tween 2.3% and 50% (weighed average [SD], 5.1% [1.3%]) across studies.6 This large disparity in rates may reflect the multiple definitions of ini‐ tiation and methods of measurement applied in studies, with different time frames used to iden‐ tify prescribing and dispensing events.5 In this issue of Polish Archives of Internal Medicine (Pol Arch Intern Med), Kardas et al7 aimed to address this lack of research on medication initi‐ ation and analyze the extent of primary nonad‐ herence in Poland. The recent implementation of a nationwide eHealth system in Poland and the in‐ troduction of electronic prescriptions (e ‐prescrip‐ tions) enabled primary nonadherence (initiation) to be measured through the comparison of e ‐pre‐ scription rates to dispension rates for 47 drugs from 6 major therapeutic areas (diabetes, anti‐ thrombotic agents, cardiovascular system, lip‐ id modifying agents, anti ‐invectives for system‐ ic use, psychoanaleptics). In line with previous research, primary nonadherence was defined as an e ‐prescription not being dispensed within a pe‐ riod of 30 days.6 In total, out of 119 880 e ‐pre‐ scriptions issued in Poland in 2018, 24 967 e ‐pre‐ scriptions were not dispensed, resulting in a pri‐ mary nonadherence rate of 20.8%. Similar to studies on the prevalence of non‐ adherence, much of the research to date on the risk factors associated with poor adherence has focused on the implementation and discontinua‐ tion components of the taxonomy.8,9 A systematic review of the psychosocial and behavioral factors Hippocrates (400 BC) was the first to note that some patients do not take their prescribed med‐ icines and many later complain that the treat‐ ment does not help.1 Since then the World Health Organisation (WHO) has called nonadherence to medication "a worldwide problem of striking magnitude" and "one of the 2 largest unsolved gaps in healthcare" (the other being suboptimal prescription of medication).2 In the past few de‐ cades, new and efficacious medications with pos‐ itive benefit ‐to ‐risk profiles have been developed and we have seen an increased focus on improv‐ ing health outcomes for people and reducing costs (eg, reducing healthcare utilization).1 However, we have made less progress in monitoring and improving adherence to medication. Recently, a taxonomy of adherence has been developed in an effort to standardize adherence‐ ‐related terminology for clinical and research use and to enable benchmarking of existing adher‐ ence enhancing strategies at the European lev‐ el.3 The taxonomy defines medication adherence "as the process by which patients take their med‐ ication as prescribed" and subdivides medication adherence into 3 essential components: 1) initi‐ ation (taking the first dose of prescribed medi‐ cation); 2) implementation (taking medication as prescribed); and 3) discontinuation (stopping treatment).4 Much of the research done to date on the prev‐ alence of nonadherence has measured the im‐ plementation and discontinuation components of the taxonomy. Less is known about the fre‐ quency with which patients fail to fill prescrip‐ tions for new medications (initiation).5 This may be due to a lack of available data to measure ini‐ tiation in a cost ‐effective way. Data are readily available worldwide to measure the implemen‐ tation and discontinuation components of ad‐ herence in large‐scale pharmacy claims databas‐ es.3 In contrast, there is a lack of necessary data linkage between what is prescribed by the phy‐ sician and what is dispensed by the pharmacist EDITORIAL


Objective To explore the application of color Doppler in the diagnosis of thyroid cancer and improve the diagnostic ac-curacy of thyroid cancer by color Doppler.Methods A retrospective study of the images and characteristic of color Doppler in 40 thyroid cancer patients who were confirmed by postoperative pathology.Results The characteristic of two-dimensional images were hypo-echoic nodules with blur border and genenrally there were fine calcifications in the nodular.The blood stream detected by color Doppler was mainly Type III,high velocity and high resistance were showed in spectral Doppler,which some index of resistance could raise up 0.7 or more.Conclusion Grasping the sonographic manifestation of thyroid cancer can reduce the misdiagnosis and provide valuable information for the treatment of thyroid cancer.


In recent times, esthetic and functionality requirements have caused many buildings to be asymmetric. An asymmetric building can be defined as one in which there is either geometric, stiffness, or mass eccentricity. Such buildings exhibit complex vibrations as there is coupling between the lateral and torsional components of vibration and are referred to as torsionally coupled buildings. These buildings require 3‐dimensional modeling and analysis. Despite recent research and successful applications of damage detection techniques in civil structures, assessing damage in asymmetric buildings remains a challenging task for structural engineers. There has been considerably less investigation on the methodologies for detecting and locating damage specific to torsionally coupled asymmetric buildings. This paper develops a multicriteria approach using vibration‐based damage indices for detecting and locating damage in asymmetric building structures. These vibration indices are based on the modified versions of the modal flexibility and the modal strain energy methods. The proposed procedure is first validated through experimental testing of a laboratory scale asymmetric building model. Numerically simulated modal data of a larger scale asymmetric building obtained from finite element analysis of the intact and damaged asymmetric building models are then applied into the modified modal flexibility and modal strain energy algorithms for detecting and locating the damage. Results show that the proposed method is capable of detecting both single and multiple damages in the beams and columns of asymmetric building structures.


(73) Assignee: Yongxiang Zhao, Nanning, Guangxi Disclosed in the present invention is a method for inducing (CN) the fusion of a dendritic cell with a tumour cell, in the fusion process, successively adding an amount of polyethylene gly (21) Appl. No.: 14/426,163 col and collagen to induce cell fusion highly efficiently, wherein polyethylene glycol can make the lipid molecules of (22) PCT Filed: Mar. 7, 2013 the plasma membrane at the contact point between the two cells disperse and recombine, and then the cells fuse due to the (86). PCT No.: PCT/CN2013/072295 mutual affinity between the bilayer membranes at the inter S371 (c)(1), face of the two cells and the surface tension between each (2) Date: Mar. 5, 2015 other. The collagen can retrench the cell membrane and repair the cell membrane after fusion, thereby forming stable fusion (30) Foreign Application Priority Data cells highly efficiently, so it is suitable for the production of


With the development of information in the world,fatalness of information that persom own is becoming higher and higher.Safe of information will be a question of every country which desiderates to settle.In this article,several of factors which can cause information unsafe are analyzed in meshwork era.Some feasible measures which can safeguard information are presented in net- work era.


Objective To investigate arterial plasma circulating endothelial cell (CEC),lactate(LA),nitric oxide(NO) concentration and pathogenesis in congestive heart failure.Methods The blood level of circulating endothelial cell was measured under fluorescence microscopy,and LA and NO were measured with fluoropholometry and colorimetry in 37 heart failure patients and other 50 persons who served as normal controls.Results Arterial plasma circulating endothelial cell,lactate and nitric oxide level in congestive heart failure patients were significantly different from values in control group.A significantly positive correlation was shown between NO and LA in both groups .Conclusion Vascular endothelial cell injury might play an important role in the pathogenesis of heart failure .NO and LA might participate in predicting progress of the heart failure patients.


PurposeThis paper aims to address the following research question: Is loan funding to female entrepreneurs in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco affected by self-selection from borrowers or/and discrimination from lenders? This paper sheds light on empirical literature review, which displays mixed evidence.Design/methodology/approachThe authors use a pooled sample of 3,896 businesses in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia drawn from the 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES). Despite selection biases and overweighing, the sample provides descriptive statistics upon gender ownership and gender management (human capital characteristics and financial data). The authors design two regression logistic models with interaction to investigate loan demand and loan granting with respect to self-selection vs discrimination. Female management is disentangled from female ownership with respect to entrepreneurship.FindingsNeither self-selection nor discrimination affects female owners compared with their male counterparts, whereas female managers do self-select themselves. In as much as the WBES female subsample include several biases, the authors eventually emphasise the importance of the non-surveyed informal sector, which includes most (micro-)businesses, and loan funding provided by the microfinance industry to these female businesses. Microfinance fills the gap for working capital but not for fixed assets. The size of the business is a major factor explaining both self-selection and discrimination.Research limitations/implicationsFindings of this study have important policy implications for closing the gender gap in accessing finance. In addition to supply-side factors, demand-side factors should be addressed. Informality also needs to be addressed, as many micro and small enterprises owned or managed by women are informal entities without registration or/and social protection. One way to increase women's demand for financial services is to introduce financial products to meet their needs (e.g. social protection basic coverage). Governments can help develop these new products by strengthening the microfinance industry with a favourable regulatory and institutional framework. The authors also wonder about the extension of this study. Thus, a new cross-sectional analysis of the most recent surveys in the North African region would allow the authors to enlarge the overall sample and measure the evolution of the gender gap over time.Originality/valueSo far, funding female entrepreneurship remained little investigated in these North African countries. Several sampling biases in the WBES – small businesses underestimation and manufacturing industry overweighting, which have been overlooked so far, explain the absence of self-selection and discrimination. In contrast, size plays an important role. Hence, the focus on microenterprises (the informal sector) and the microfinance industry suggests indeed that female entrepreneurs operating in small businesses have to cope with both self-selection and discrimination.


The evaluation of organizational performance (OP) and its related impacts is regarded as one of the discussed factors. The most important factors in the development of organization, is the correct efficiency of the human resources in the organization. In order to promote the performance of the organization, the performance of the organizational resources should managed and controlled. The organizational commitment (OC) is one of the fundamental concepts in the human resource management (HRM) resulting in the increased performance. The employee's commitment in the organization should be in such a way that the individuals are willing to attend into the organization so that the organization can achieve a level of successfulness. The OC cause to promote and increase the productivity of the OP. The present study aimed to analyze the relationship between HRM, OC and the OP of the employees in education Bureau in Sirjan. This is descriptive correlational study which uses self-made questionnaire for data collection. The statistical population consists of 65 employee of the education Bureau in Sirjan city. Data analysis was conducted using correlation test, path analysis, and structural equation model using software R. The finding of the study revealed that there is a poor and medium relationship between the HRM and OC and the OP of the employee. In addition, there was a medium relationship between the OC and OP of the employee. Moreover, it is observed that there is a strong relationship between the research hypotheses. The results of the study suggested that the education Bureau should attempt to manage their human resource and the increased responsibility as well as working independence so that it can have a significant impact on the increased commitment of the education Bureau and the improved performance of the organization.


Metachromatic Leukodystrophy (MLD) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disorder characterised by defective catabolism of myelin and the accumulation of cerebroside sulphate in neural tissue. The disorder is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal hydrolase, arylsulphatase A (ARSA). MLD patients present with a broad spectrum of clinical phenotypes, the disorder has therefore been divided into three broad subtypes based on the age of onset of clinical symptoms. Late-infantile MLD is typically diagnosed before the age of 2 years, juvenile between ages 3 and 16 and adult MLD which is diagnosed after puberty (1). Biochemical diagnosis of MLD is complicated by the existence of an ARSA pseudodeficiency allele, which causes the loss of the major mRNA species (2.1 kb) of ARSA and a concomitant 90% reduction in the level of ARSA activity. Approximately 1% of the normal population is homozygous for this allele with no apparent clinical sequelae (2). The 507 amino acid ARSA polypeptide is encoded by a compact 3.2 kb gene containing 8 exons (3). Each of the ARSA exons and intron boundaries were PCR amplified and subjected to single-stranded conformation polymorphism analysis (SSCP) to detect sequence alterations (4). Exons exhibiting alterations in electrophoretic mobility on SSCP gels were sequenced using a modified linear based PCR sequencing protocol (5). SSCP analysis of the ARSA gene from a late-infantile MLD patient revealed a shift in the mobility of a band derived from exon v m (Figure 1). Sequence analysis of exon 8 revealed a heterozygous C to T transition at nucleotide number 1458 of the ARSA cDNA resulting in the alteration of a glutamine codon (CAG) at position 486 to a stop codon (TAG), (Q486X). No other sequence changes have yet been observed in this patient. Allele specific oligonucleotides were designed to detect the normal (5'-CGCCCTGCAGATCTGCTG-3') and mutant (5'-CGCCCTGTAGATCTGCTG-3') sequences Of Q486X (Figure 2) on Southern blotted filters containing exon 8 PCR products. After hybridisation filters were washed twice in 4xSSC for 10 minutes and once at 60°C in 2 xSSC, 0.1 % SDS (4). The patient's mother was found to be heterozygous for Q ggX (her father was unavailable for testing), however the mutation was not found in 27 other MLD patients, 21 ARSA pseudodeficient or 42 normal individuals.


Objective To determine the (1) feasibility and acceptability of administering single question mental health surveillance to carers of children with chronic disease in the inpatient setting and (2) sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) of this question to detect 'at risk' children compared with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). Design Cross-sectional pilot Setting Day Medical Unit of a tertiary paediatric hospital, 1 April 2021–31 July 2021. Patients Carers of children aged 2–17 years with chronic medical conditions. Interventions Caregivers were asked to respond to 'Thinking about your child's mental health over the past 4 weeks, are they thriving/coping/struggling/always overwhelmed?' during the admission process. All carers and children 11–17 years were invited to complete the SDQ. Main outcome measures Feasibility and acceptability were determined by nursing feedback. Sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV were determined by comparing question responses with clinical cut-points on the SDQ. Results 213 carers responded to the question. Nurses reported that the question was easy (12/14) or moderately easy (2/14) to use and was 'easily understood' (6/14) or 'understood after some explanation' (8/14) for most carers. The question demonstrated a high specificity (0.98)/PPV (0.87) but low sensitivity (0.2) when thriving/coping were considered together whereas when thriving was compared with all other responses the sensitivity increased to 0.7. Conclusions Single question mental health surveillance appears acceptable to carers and nursing staff and has a high level of specificity for children who are 'struggling' or 'always overwhelmed' versus the SDQ screening measure. The introduction of a single mental health screening question to a paediatric chronic illness clinic was feasible and acceptable to staff and families. It was a useful tool to identify those requiring more in depth assessment.


The development of a method which reliably estimates the loss for any given level of disease is a prerequisite to the development of a rational disease control program. Such a method was developed between 1953-1970 using results from field experiments; it led to a multiple regression equation in which the yield loss is the dependent variable. The decrease in marketable tubers because of their reduced size was also considered.

The method of estimating yield loss due to late blight is currently being used in conjunction with a disease simulator.


The more tourist objects are in an area, the more challenging it is for local governments to increase the selling value of these attractions. The government always strives to develop tourist attraction areas by prioritizing the beauty of tourist attractions. However, visitors often have difficulty in determining tourist objects that match their criteria because of the many choices. The research developed a tourist attraction recommendation system for visitors by applying machine learning techniques. The machine learning technique used was the K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) method. Several trials were conducted with a dataset of 315 records, consisting of 11 attributes and 21 tourist attractions. Based on the dataset, the preprocessing stage was previously carried out to improve the data format by selecting data where the data were separated based on existing criteria, then calculating the closest distance and determining the value of k in the KNN method. The results are divided into five folds for each classification method. The highest system accuracy obtained at KNN is 78% at k=1. It shows that the KNN method can provide recommendations for three tourist attraction classes in Bangkalan. Applying the KNN method in the recommendation system determines several alternative tourist objects that tourists can visit according to their criteria in natural, cultural, and religious tourist objects.


The present invention discloses a method for synthesizing mefenamic acid, o-chlorobenzoic acid as a raw material, in the presence of an acid-binding agent, an aprotic polar solvent, salt formation o-chlorobenzoate; the role of a dehydrating agent next to manganese powder or manganese salt as catalyst, o-chlorobenzoate and 2,3-dimethylaniline condensation reaction, and then acidified to give mefenamic acid. The present invention provides a method of synthesizing mefenamic acid, having a high reaction yield, and high product quality advantages of low production cost, the yield of the product solution prior prepared products present in the lower and darker problem.


The main goal of this work is to give new and precise
generalizations to various classes of plurisubharmonic functions of the
classical minimum modulus principle for holomorphic functions of
one complex variable, in the spirit of the famous lemma of Cartan-
Boutroux. As an application we obtain precise estimates on the size
of "plurisubharmonic lemniscates" in terms of appropriate Hausdorff
contents.


The reaction of 2-methylpyridine with TiBr4 affords tetrabromo(2-methylpyridine-N)titanate(IV), C6H7Br4NTi. The environment around the Ti atom can be described as a slightly distorted trigonal bipyramid, with the nitrogen base occupying an equatorial position. The crystal structure of the title compound is isomorphous with tetrachloro(2-methylpyridine-N)titanate(IV).


Mother language (L1) thinking is an objective reality in second language (L2) acquisition. As a kind of extremely steady knowledge and habit, when first language is similar with target language,L2 learners can study fast in these respects with " generality ".The empirical studies indicate that the process of L2 acquisition can be expedited in the aspects of L2 teaching、L2 reading and writing through L1. L1 thinking is not only one of the learning strategies of L2 learners , but also a section of only roads while undertaking an L2 acquisition task.


The Neogene Pliocene-Quaternary early Pleistocene strata have been studied and divided in detail, the Pliocene-early Pleistocene lithostratigraphic units have been redefined and the biostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic successions have been established through field geological surveys and section measurements of fluvio-lacustrine strata in the Zanda basin. A threefold division scheme of the Pliocene-lower Pleistocene has been proposed for the first time. This sequence of fluvio-lacustrine deposit has been redivided into the Quaternary early Pleistocene Qangze Formation (Qp1-1x), Neogene Pliocene Guge Formation (N22g) and Neogene Pliocene Tolin Formation (N12t), seven sedimentary facies and eleven lithologic members. In addition, a concrete opinion for the determination of the location of the Pliocene-early Pleistocene has been put forward. This study provides an important basis for the study and division of the Neogene Pliocene-Quaternary early Pleistocene on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and even in the world.


This report summarizes the designs and analyses produced by General Dynamics Convair for the four Axicell magnets (A1 and A20, east and west), the four Transition magnets (T1 and T2, east and west), and the twelve Solenoid magnets (S1 through S6, east and west). Over four million drawings and specifications, in addition to detailed stress analysis, thermal analysis, electrical, instrumentation, and verification test reports were produced as part of the MFTF-B design effort. Significant aspects of the designs, as well as key analysis results, are summarized in this report. In addition, drawing trees and lists off detailed analysis and test reports included in this report define the locations of the detailed design and analysis data.


This work discussed the place of government and traditional agencies in community development. It looked at key concepts like development and what it stands for, the idea of partnership in doing business, what community development is and the merits and demerits of partnership in community development. It saw a positive relationship in such partnership if it is handled well.


The European Commission is stepping up pressure on the food industry to phase out junkfood advertisements targeted at children as part of moves to reverse the growing trend ofobesity among young people.

Commission and industry representatives have been consulting over the past six months on the best ways to introduce some form of self regulation. But Markos Kyprianou, the new European Union health and consumer affairs commissioner, has warned that he will not hesitate to use legislation if the talks fail.

"My preference is for self regulation, which could involve all …


The purpose of the paper is to interpret the implications of WTO's provisional decision on duty-free electronic commerce. The economic implication is that preferential treatment of a particular mode of delivery could lead to trade-diversion from other modes. But the future costs of such trade diversion, the revenue loss. would be small for most countries. And the prohibition of customs duties does not ensure continued open access for electronically delivered products and may even prompt resource to inferior instruments of protection. Consequently, the legal implication is that duty-free electronic commerce would be more effectively secured by deeping and widening the limited commitments under the GATS and by clarifying and strengthening certain GATS disciplines.


Abstract : An experimental investigation was made of the characteristics of several developers in the processing of T-15 and T-17 aerial films for a gamma of 1.4 plus or minus 0.05. The results of a comparison of the developers with respect to several parameters are used to estimate the relationships between the light sensitivity and information capacity. The parameters of five developers are tabulated for each of the films.


The invention relates to a general intelligent dial method and relative software structure, wherein the software structure is mounted on the PC terminal of user, which comprises a distribute module for distributing the local telephone number and distributing the default telephone number format; the number obtain module for detecting and judging if the user has selected the text; the number analyze module, based on the default telephone number format, for judging the effect of telephone number on the selected text, and supporting the interface of user dial when the selected text is useful; a dial module for forming the dial message and sending said message to the dial server. The invention can overcome the limit of present dial process, to be used in the conditions that the telephone number is embedded in the web page and the telephone number is embedded in any electric document based on text. The invention can support additive benefit for the VOIP company that using IP Centerx or IP PBX.


Abstract—During transformation of the power frequency currents, inductive current transformers are characterized by the values of current errors and phase displacement, which determine their accuracy class. However, current transformers catalogues do not specify these metrological parameters of transformation for the sinusoidal signals at frequencies higher than 50 Hz (60 Hz). The aims of this article are the descriptions of the metrological and magnetic circuit properties of the inductive current transformers with an Ni80Fe20 toroidal core in condition of sinusoidal currents transformation of frequencies from 50 Hz to 20 kHz. Determined magnetization characteristics of tested current transformer magnetic circuit are the justification for the course of its measured wide frequency metrological characteristics. Moreover, they may be used in designing the current transformers with an Ni80Fe20 toroidal core for transformation of the above 50-Hz frequency currents. The classification procedure was used in this article to define the current transformers accuracy for wide frequency operation and measurement method for determining their current errors and phase displacement for transformation of sinusoidal signals at frequencies from 50 Hz (60 Hz) to 20 kHz are presented.


Home care services (HCS), a new model of Ministry of Family and Social Policies in disability service field started to be applied in 2006 and has pervaded during this elapsed time. According to statistics of Feb-2013, it is determined that 408.165 disabled individuals are receiving home care service. Thanks to this service model, the viewpoint to disabled individuals has changed; families that previously hide their disabled relative begin to care for them in a better condition and to fulfill their need on time. Home care services contribute to sustain the relationship of disabled individuals, their families and society healthier. Aim of this study is to determine effects of home care services on disabled individuals and their families' socio-economic status. A Questionnaire form was developed by researcher to collect the opinions of families receiving home care service. Data were gathered by interviewing face to face with families of disabled individuals that inhabit in Konya. Statistical analyses were done by using SPSS program. Percent and number calculation in descriptive statistics, Marginal Homogeneity test and McNeamar test. According to findings, values before receiving HCS and after receiving HCS were compared in terms of families' knowledge about caring, joining social activities with their disables, joining to any non-governmental organizations, fulfilling primary need of disabled individuals and expectance intended for future of disabled individuals. It was found that all variables change in a positive way after receiving CHS.